Re: Speed

> Message: 6
> Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 00:54:53 -0600
> From: Andrew Hargreave <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [VPN] Speed
> To: vpn maillist <[email protected]>
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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> 
> George,
> You don't provide us with any connection rates on both ends of
> the VPN. However, a 168meg Quickbooks file opening across the
> wire is really  unrealistic given how Quickbooks accesses the
> files.  If the accountant really needs to access Quickbooks
> from a remote location, I would suggest 
> using Terminal Services via the VPN.
>  
> Andrew G. Hargreave, III     (GIAC Security Essentials
> Certified)

I concur with Andrew's assessment regarding Quickbooks' doing
file access that makes opening remote Quickbook files painfully
slow.  The app wants to access its data files thru standard file
system protocols.  So break out a packet sniffer and you'll see
the usual tons of M$ Networking file share traffic going down
your pipe, and waiting for responses, on top of the file size
issue that Dan calculated in the next post.

To go one step further, Quickbooks says that the app was never
meant to work in a remote access environment.  They will offer
to sell you the webified version, though!

Binky


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